i'm a wisconsin guy. i moved back home when i was 27 after working out here for about five years in think tanks and on the hill and looked at a running for an open seat for my hometown district. >> i'm a big, irish catholic guy. i have 67 cousins in jamesville alone. and i miss just home. and so i basically did a lot of praying, soul searching and decided to be able to live at home and running for office and advocating ideas. >> i didn't know it was possible or not. >> so did you call your mentors? >> yeah, i just called a bunch of friends and said does this pass the laugh test? and bill and others were very encouraging of me to do this. i just did a lot of traveling around. i did a lot of work for my cuss sin's bids. and then on my free time, i went around the district and talked to people. >> so, i think that what you can see from paul ryan here, he's such a down-to-earth, likable guy, whether you disagree with him on policy or not shlgs you can see him really attracting crowds and young kuds, in partic

wisconsin, on wisconsin! [ applause ] wisconsin, the home of the national football league mp3. major league baseball's mp3. miss wisconsin is miss americ america. and reince priebus, our national chairman is from wisconsin. [ applause ] but most importantly, someone i know as the braviest person i know in politics, the most courageous and decent the next vice president of the united states, paul ryan is from wisconsin. [ applause ] wisconsin proudly casts 1 votes if for next president of the states, mitt romney and one for ron paul. >> bret: governor scott walker from wisconsin, up and coming star of the republican party. governor who fought off a recall evident to take him out of office in june. arguably the reason paul ryan or one of them is on the ticket is because of scott walker's efforts in wisconsin. wisconsin, carl, now a state in play. get to the end of the list, state crucial to the election now. >> reporter: it's representative of the romney campaign folks to expand the battlefield. paul ryan injected big energy in the campaign. putting wisconsin in play, that is ano

i think wisconsin is definitely in play. i think we will deliver ten electoral votes to the next president, mitt romney. >> let me ask you a little bit about the tea party, which has been among the conservatives on that side of the republican party pushing for mitt romney to nominate someone that is more kind of in their comfort zone. but the criticism has been now, but what does paul ryan bring to the ticket when it comes to attracting swing voters? >> well, what paul brings to the tickets, as does mitt romney, is a seriousness of purpose this is an excellent, an outstanding choice, a confident choice, it definitely guarantees that this election will be about big issues, it will be about the serious problems facing this nation and two individuals that have serious solutions and real proposals to fix the problems. let face it president obama, he has proposed four sboinlgts far, candy. not once has he laid out a proposal to save either social security or medicare. his last two budgets were so unserious, they have had three vo

senators, wisconsin bob casten and sam brownback of kansas. in '96, he wrote speeches for vp nominee jack kemp. two years later he won a seat in the u.s. house, although one badger state gop leader admits he tried to talk ryan out of it. >> after about a 15 minute conversation, i could see that he had his heart set on running for congress and i kind of shrugged it off and said good luck, i don't think you'll make it. i kind of understatemented him. >> few understatement him anymore. at 16, he found his father dead from a heart attack. it is why ryan takes care of himself. he describes himself as a gym rat, offered cake when he did fox news sunday on his birthday, ryan said no thanks. >> you don't have to eat it. >> i'm not going to. i gave it up a long time ago. >> his regular lunch order from the restaurant across the street from his congressional office? >> turkey burg better feet -- burker with fruit. >> every time? >> every time. >> much of his time at home is with his wife and three children. in dc, as he explained in an interview with br

. >> thank you, wisconsin. it is good to be home. oh. i tell ya, i love wisconsin. heather now from brookville, wisconsin with more of what could be romney's loringest campaign event to date. how many people were there? >> good morning heather, good morning ladies and good morning to all of you. at least 10,000 people showed up last night. you are absolutely right. this is the largest event turnout for the romney ryan ticket yet. traffic was backed up for more than 2 miles to get in. they originally planned to hold this inside a convention center but they had to move the event outside. perhaps there was no sur vise there was such a huge turnout. ryan is considered a popular figure here in the state in his congressional district which by the way is not considered a district it is verse. as w by more than 60 percent. in 2010 he won by 68 percent. i have to tell you my family is from the state. i spent an awful lot of time here and this guy is wisconsin through and through. listen do what he said last night. >> my veins run with cheese, bratwursts and a little miller.

from wisconsin. mitt romney calls paul ryan an intellectual leader of the republican party. some of his ideas weren't always in vogue with most republicans. "the new yorker" magazine published a fascinating profile of the congressman by its washington correspondent who tweeted this about ryan friday night -- "he's a very nice guy but i would be flabbergasted if romney picked him as vp." ryan is also a cnn contributor, with us right now. why would you have been flabbergasted? >> well, i just didn't think -- this is contrary to what i thought of as romney's strategy in his election and frankly, his character. he's played it safe in this election and i thought his strategy going into this vp pick was focus on the economy, don't make the race about yourself, don't make the race about your vice presidential candidate and this changes that. this says, okay, i can't just rely on the bad economy or rely on obama's failure. i've got to change this more to a choice between two big, bold, contrasting ideologies

wisconsin, i don't know how much he's going to bring paul ryan to wisconsin. i assume he's going to help him in wisconsin. wisconsin did elect a republican governor, scott walker, in 2010. there's been a lot of controversy in wisconsin. been a long time since wisconsin in the presidential race went for a republican. i assume that romney thinks paul ryan is going to help him in wisconsin and maybe bring him over the top although i think that is still very much an uphill struggle. >> going to be very interesting to watch. wolf blitzer, ron brownstein, thank you. >>> we're watching other news as well this morning. hillary clinton is in turkey talking syria. we'll tell you who she is meeting and what exactly is on the table today. you do what you do... because it matters. at hp we don't just believe in the power of technology. we believe in the power of people when technology works for you. to dream. to create. to work. if you're going to do something. make it matter. >>> welcome back. 24 minutes past the hour. checking some other news, secretary of state hillary

we are in wisconsin. we expect this delegation to be absolutely wild when he is introduced to this crowd. and really, paul ryan has been in congress 14 years. a full third of his life. yet up until a few saturdays ago, he was largely unknown outside the beltway. we speck him to detail that journey from jamesville, wisconsin, to washington. we expect him to also say that he accepts his generation's calling to help restore america's promise for future generations. a promise that he says has been lost under this current president. he will end this speech, we believe, much in the same fashion he does on the campaign trail, into the crowd saying things are dire but it is not too late. together we can get this done. we will get this done. in between we expect him to throw out a lot of red meat and potatoes that these folks can eat up and probably get them on their feet a time or two. >> ron mott who is briefly off the campaign trail and standing in wisconsin. at least part of the convention floor relegated to t

this was just moments ago from our affiliate earlier in wisconsin. we will talk more about what happened inside of the temple of people who were in there who witnessed this incident are beginning to speak to the media. we have more information from law enforcement. we are awaiting a press conference. they believe there is only one shooter but those at the scene say shooters, multiple shooters. at this point police believe only one shooter. details, more of them on the other side of the break. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> don lemon cnn world head quarters in atlanta. deb is in new york getting details. we will get to you in a moment. we want to tell our viewers here in the united states and around the world there has been a shooting at a temple in wisconsin. seven people are dead. they believe including the gunman. four of the people were found dead inside, three of them outside. one of the three outside is the gunman who police are saying presumed dead. in about 15 minutes we want to tell you there is a press conference in wisconsin to talk abo

and there was tremendous people and leaders in wisconsin in that day and age. can you see more of them in people like scott walker and paul ryan. it has produced magnificent political leaders and they know how to address tough issues. and the thing i like about paul ryan, he had the courage to say i will not lie to you. this is the truth. it is painful and difficult but we have to make the decisions and the choices and can't puts around four more years. i look at my two and half year old grand daughter and every day that goes by we are adding up the bill she and her family will have to worry about 30 or 40 years down the road. if we don't have a president who is prepare to stand up address those issues. i am afraid we are deep in the soup. >> mr. vice-president thank you for being with us. we have a full hour with the vice-president and we'll show in the week ahead. stay tuned for on the fox news channel. liz cheney and tim pawlenty and first find out why mitt romney will choose paul ryan. we'll neck next. well another great thing about all this walking i've be

and there was tremendous people and leaders in wisconsin in that day and age. can you see more of them in people like scott walker and paul ryan. it has produced magnificent political leaders and they know how to address tough issues. and the thing i like about paul ryan, he had the courage to say i will not lie to you. this is the truth. it is painful and difficult but we have to make the decisions and the choices and can't puts around four more years. i look at my two and half year old grand daughter and every day that goes by we are adding up the bill she and her family will have to worry about 30 or 40 years down the road. if we don't have a president who is prepare to stand up address those issues. i am afraid we are deep in the soup. >> mr. vice-president thank you for being with us. we have a full hour with the vice-president and we'll show in the week ahead. stay tuned for on the fox news channel. liz cheney and tim pawlenty and first find out why mitt romney will choose paul ryan. we'll neck next. >> we will take responsibility. and we won't replace ou

>> scott walker in wisconsin. all of these leaders at the state level have demonstrated we can do, it's just time for washington to follow suit. >> sean: also part of christie's message tonight, i won't give a full preview, but he's going to say the american people can handle the truth. seems like he's going out there under the assumption that the american people understand with one in six americans in poverty, 25 million un and underemployed, 49 million americans on food stamps, seems to be going out there under the assumption that the american people know things are bad and they've not gotten better under barack obama. >> as you know, chris christie is the first to say he approached the job that he has as governor with two things in mind. number one, always tell the truth. number two, try and effect real change and solve problems. it's the same thing we've done in the u.s. house. it's what paul ryan brings to the ticket, because frankly the budget that he designed and drafted is about fixing problems. it's also,

ryan would help romney in wisconsin and across the midwest. >> he does get wisconsin. but more importantly, he gets the blue-collar conservatism that i think is the heart of the republican party. >> reporter: tapping ryan is a big gamble, because of the house gop budget that bears his name. up until now, romney has done everything to make this campaign a referendum on the incumbent. >> the president's policies are not creating jobs. >> reporter: add ryan to the ticket and there's no escaping this. >> ryan plan to end medicare as we know it must be taken off the table. >> reporter: ryan has never run statewide. he has no foreign policy experience. and some will question whether a 42-year-old house member is ready to be commander in chief. >> one of the stars of the republican future in the next 10 to 20 years. whether he's ready at this moment, only the campaign trail could tell. and he's going to get -- he'll take a real beating. >> reporter: ryan says family history makes him a fitness fanatic, leading colleagues in grueling cross training workouts. >> my father died

. >> ted rollins in wisconsin. ted, don't go anywhere. we will be relying on you for infoation as we continue our coverage here again, ted reporting that the suspected gunman in this mad shooting at a sikh temple in wisconsin was a white male, who was roughly 40 years of age. again, that's according to thomas ahern, who is a spokesman for the atf in the chicago division. this guy is believed to be a guy who shot and killed six people inside the temple and also left three people in critical condition in the hospital, including a police officer. and police in oak creek say they will release no more information until tomorrow morning. the last public statements from police near the shooting scene right now. listen. >> our officers responded to the scene. did find a victim. and we're dealing with that individual when our officer, 20-year veteran, was ambushed, shot multiple times. he is currently at the hospital undergoing surgery. we expect him to recover. and another officer who was on scene was engaged bit suspect. our officer did enghaj i

wisconsin has as tight as a tick in 2000 and 2004. the democrats carried it by just a few thousand votes. it is at base a potentially competitive state. this is going to force the democrats to spend money and to spend precious campaign time for obama and biden campaigning in wisconsin. >> that's interesting. not enough people talk about how much money paul ryan can raise. romney doesn't need a lot of help, there but 5 million has 5 million in war chest and can raise an awful lot of it. you were saying, aly. >> a lot of analysts said this helps romney sure up credentials. conservatives were never going to vote for barack obama anyway. does this move the needle? moves the needle in this sense? this election just like i think 2004, is a battle of the two party bases. look, there are hardly any undecides. i keep saying this. i'm a broken record but it's true. we are talking about 5% or 6% of the voters are undecided in swing voters. the other 90 to 9 a% already know for whom they are going to voight. the question is, are they going to tur

wisconsin is a battleground state as well. so ryan helps him in wisconsin. but in virginia where it helps him is really with republicans and republicans who have been rallying around mitt romney. but have been saying consistently that he needs to offer something other than just being not barack obama. what paul ryan has is a detailed plan about rearranging the relationship between government and the american people. and mitt romney has now embraced that. he has embraced the author of that vision and that game plan. so this will get republicans enthusiastic, but it will also speak to independent voters and say this man has a plan. mitt romney has a plan and here is his sort of co-partner in that plan and that's paul ryan. >> a lot of talk about tim pawlenty out of minnesota and mark rubio in florida. it seemed lately that a lot of conservatives were pushing for ryan. did he ultimately bend to that, do you think? >> reporter: i think what we know about the times that ryan and romney have campaigned together is that they like each other and that's been importan

we have team coverage of this wisconsin temple shooting. we would like to welcome our viewers from around the world who are watching this on cnn international. as this gunman ran into the building can you imagine you are supposed to be there to worship when the worse thing that can happen, a senseless act of violence someone starts randomly opening fire on women and children in a place of worship. we don't know the motivation behind this. we are seeking to get that from police and investigators. of course, that will come out, the details about why this gunman did this. in many times in these situations we never find out the exact motivation. it could be just a disturbed individual. and obviously to do this one would have to be disturbed in some way. waiting on a press conference. the last briefing from the hospital from froedtert hospital. three people in the hospital. gunshot wounds range from multiple gunshot wounds to the face, multiple gunshot wounds to the abdomen. some to the extremities, as well. as we wait for all of this to play ou

obama won wisconsin in 2008. with ryan on the ticket they hope to take wisconsin's electoral votes. chip reid is there this evening. >> reporter: paul ryan comes home to waukesha wisconsin for a welcome home rally. the ryan campaign hopes this time they'll do better in november. bill campbell is head usher at the catholic church. >> anyone that knows him or talks to him comments on how nice a guy he is. >> reporter: that is a refrain in janesville where ryan has lived. today they taped over the old ryan for congress sign with something new. >> i think he will be the spark plug for the republican party. >> reporter: campbell went to the same high school as ryan and their fathers were law partners. >> this is the patio that ryan laid when he was 16 years of age. >> reporter: when ryan was 16 his father died of a heart attack. tony, a friend, saw how that affected ryan first hand. >> i know deep down it really affected him. it also motivated him. deep down he wants his father to be proud of him. >> reporter: he served on junior council with him. >> ryan had the same charisma then. >> r

know wisconsin. i lived there many years ago. it is a polarized state and more so now than ever paul ryan won his district seven times in southeast wisconsin but what about the state? that's a tougher order, isn't it? >> yeah, it really is. like so many states across america, very different depending on where you go. in the sort of rural areas, right, they may be more conservative to the romney-ryan ticket. the milwaukee area, especially madison, wisconsin, overwhelmingly obama in 2008 in the madison area. but to your point, scott, it is an excellent one. this is perhaps not only a key battleground state for the election, probably the most polarized state in the united states right now. they face the recall election, walker got through it. there's a lot of people angry about it. i can tell you this much anecdotally. take it for what it's worth. on the drive to the studio today, i saw fresh-looking obama 2012 bumper stickers. i'm not sure ryan from the folks -- maybe i spoke to 20 or so people over th

wisconsining wisconsin would be huge for romney. he has got to win ohio as well where rob portman is from. a bunch of states mitt romney has to win. this could make it more difficult for romney to win florida. there is a retirees in florida. there are a lot of people on medicare. democrats are going to try the old mediscare tactic. it might work. if romney doesn't win florida, he doesn't become president. >> byron, in a recent interview, congressman ryan said i want a full-throated defense for an alternative agenda that fixes the country's problems. solution to get us out of the ditch we are in and to be proud about it is that the kind of language that people have been waiting to hear from the republic party and maybe they haven't been hearing it up to this point. let's talk about the energy that this announcement may bring to the process. >> it's certainly what conservative republicans have been wanting to hear you are going to see a lot more energy. these are the same republicans that aren't all that enthusiastic about mitt romney

we were concerned about ohio, but wisconsin, again, less than a percentage point. fast forward to stayed and i think this is setting up to be a very competitive battleground state and particularly when you add paul ryan on the ballot. then you add the polarization. this is one of the most polarized states in the country, particularly with the recall election of scott walker. >> sreenivasan: we have had a long-term project called listen to me where we hear from voters on what the important issues are and whether they think the political system is broken. here are a couple of the answers from wisconsin. >> i like to be positive but our country is very divided, and it is hard to see how we can possibly unite when we have very conflicting views that don't find a lot of common ground on a regular basis. >> i feel like there's no compromise. like, within our little microcosm of madison and in big government. i feel like no one is willing ty compromise which is the only thing that's going to move usth forward. >> sreenivasan: let's take a look at the 2008 presidential res

steve is in jamesville, wisconsin. stay with us. senator ron johnson, republican from wisconsin joining us after the break. did is honor to announce my running mate and next vice-president of the united states paul ryan. [ donovan ] i hit a wall. and i thought "i can't do this, it's just too hard." then there was a moment. when i decided to find a way to keep going. go for olympic gold and go to college too. [ male announcer ] every day we help students earn their bachelor's or master's degree for tomorrow's careers. this is your moment. let nothing stand in your way. devry university, proud to support the education of our u.s. olympic team. with the fidelity stock screener, you can try strategies from independent experts and see wh criteria they use. such as a 5% yield on dividend-paying stocks. then you can customize the strategies and narrow down to exactly those stocks you want to follow. i'm mark allen of fidelity investments. the expert strategies feature is one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. n

the shooting at a temple in wisconsin. new information coming now from deborah. >> the hospital is the froedtert hospital of wisconsin. they're the trauma center that received the three critically injured patients. we're told two of the patients are out of surgery, and they are recovering. we're told another is undergoing a complex set of procedures. we do not know which of the patients is still in surgery. we do know there was a police officer who was essentially ambushed by the gunman as he ran from that temple. that officer shot multiple times. this was a man who apparently had nothing to lose. not only did he shoot at this police officer, but he also shot at another police officer who ultimately fired the fatal shot. >> all right. deborah in new york. deb, also, real quickly we're learning more about this suspected shooter. again, a man in his 40s, right? correct, deb? you still there? >> correct, yes. sorry about that. >> you talked about the handgun that was -- just quickly, one handgun. both of guns found semiautoma

the wisconsin governor, paul ryan from wisconsin. mitt romney calls paul ryan an intellectual leader. some of his ideas were not always envogue with republicans. "the new yorker" magazine published a profile who tweeted this about ryan friday night. i am quoting. he's a very nice guy, but i would be flabbergasted if romney picked him as vp. ryan is a cnn contributor. why would u have been flabbergasted? >> this is contrary to what i thought of as romney's strategy in this election and frankly his character. he is playing is safe and i thought his strategy going into this pick is focus on the economy and don't make the race about yourself and your candidate. this changes that and said i can't just rely on the economy and obama's failure. i have to change this to a choice between two bold ideologists. >> he made the daring sdifgz his career. not just in the last few weeks, but his career. >> i think so. that's one way of saying that romney usually plays it safe. this is a gamble. paul ryan's budget, the inside that n that budget are un

we're going to win wisconsin and we're going to get to the white house. >> ryan gets back to wisconsin as much as he can, often rushing straight to the airport to get home to his wife and three children. >> i don't have a place here in d.c. i'm here four days a week, i head home and go to milwaukee. keep my truck there. >> we'll know in coming days whether he is guided for romney. if it is clear, if it is a lomdz ticket the race will focus on big issues. >> we look at europe and where they are headed -- we don't want to go in that direction. >> heather: and romney-ryan ticket it is. our special thanks to bret baier for that report. >> they are hitting the campaign trail for the first time as a brand-new presidential ticket. here is a live look that is set to get underway in manassas, virginia. we'll bring it live when it happens. brand-new polling on the governor's pick for the vice president and fund-raising totals in. how much the campaign has raked in since this morning's announcement. don't go away. with the spark cash card from capital one, sven's home security gets the most rewar

wisconsin was lean obama. we switched it to a toss-up state which gives you a closer race for the electoral college. let's go to that dynamic you're talking about. this is the 2008 map. if you look at wisconsin, you think, come on no way, right, president obama wins it by about 13 points. look at all that blue in the middle of the state. how could paul ryan put it in play? to the points you made, the ryan pick gives you a point or maybe more the obama campaign concede. a lot of republican energy on the ground. that's 2008. if we go to 2010, this is the senate race. ron johnson beats an incumbent democrat, russ feingold. scott walker. not only wins 5247, just survived that recall election a few months ago. that is why, soledad, if you take our poll, you talk to both campaigns, and you go to that state and you sense the republican energy, that's why we saw it's a toss-up. >> if it's a toss-up and it wasn't four years ago, that means the obama campaign's going to have to spend some money. i have to imagine the go

[cheers and applause] i'll tell you, i love wisconsin. [cheers and applause] oh, i see my family over here, that is this half of the stadium. this is such a phenomenal place to live, work, to raise your family. martha: quite an emotional moment there for 42-year-old paul ryan, who has had a meteoric rise in his party. now you have the republican ticket in place. they quickly got down to business. they focused much their weekend focusing on president obama's as they see it, struggling economy. >> when he ran bain he created jobs. he turned around failing enterprises. he has first-hand experience that if you have built, started, or run a small business, you did that. >> we're going to do everything in our power to keep america strong with strong families and strong values, a strong economy, the strongest military in the world. we will restore american strength. >> we want to have the kind of an election where we earn your support. where we win an election because you said, go fix the mess in washington, so when we win this election we go fi

our live coverage continues of the shooting at the sikh temple in wisconsin. at this hour we're told seven people died, three victims being treated at a nearby hospital right now. more details and reaction from the scene coming up. and jobs and the economy. top issues on the campaign trail and president obama and governor romney saying he is the man to fix it. the latest from the campaign trail minutes away. we could be hours away from history. in outer space, nasa getting ready to watch its mars rover try to land itself on the martian surface. [ male announcer ] it's a golden opportunity... to drive a car filled with as much advanced technology as the world around it. with the available lexus enform app suite, you can use opentable tmake restaurant servations... search wi bing... and listen to pandora. presenting the 2013 lexus gs, rx and the all-new es, the leading edge of the leading edge. during the golden opportunity sales event, get great values on some of our newe models. this is the pursuit of perfection. [ "human" by the human league playing ] humans.

. >> reporter: they wrapped up a rally in wisconsin. they'll split up tomorrow, ryan going to iowa, and romney going to florida and won't be reunited until the end of the month when both will be officially nominated. carl cameron, fox news. >>> a traffic alert for drivers heading by dulles airport. the toll road will be closed on the eastbound side overnight. it's because of work that's being done on the dulles corridor metro rail project. it starts at 11:30 and will be back open around 5:00 tomorrow morning. >>> montgomery county police are investigating a deadly motorcycle accident. it happened tonight around 8:40 along the great seneca highway near high gapeles drive. the man was roughed to the hospital but didn't survivor. the highway will be shut down until at least 1:00 a.m. >>> d.c. police investigating three different shootings overnight. teenage boy was shot on w street. another shooting happened in the 300 block of 37th place. we are told one man was shot there. a man was shot in the leg in the 100 block of 36th street in nort

more than half of those votes are in florida, ohio, and wisconsin. today, a new quinnipiac/cbs news/"new york times" poll of likely voters finds the president ahead in all three states. in florida, he leads governor romney by three points, 49% to 46%. he has a six-point lead in ohio, 50% to 44%. and in wisconsin the home state of the running mate, paul ryan, the president's-- the president's lead is just two points, 49% to 47%. we have reports tonight from jan crawford and nancy cordes. first, jan with the romney campaign. jan. >> reporter: well, scott, our polls suggest that wisconsin, which the president won by 14 points in 2008, is now up for grabs because he-- because romney picked paul ryan as his running mate. voters also tell us they think that romney is best equipped to handle the issue they care about the most-- the economy. paul ryan has made an impact since he was tapped as romney's v.p., republican enthusiasm for the election considered an indicator of voter turnout is up. in our poll, g.o.p. voters say they're more excited about voting t

us bank. >>> wisconsin up for grabs. good news for mitt romney after the paul ryan pick. >>> fight for the right to rock. a free speech battle in russia. a female punk rock band set to find out if they'll be sent to prison for slamming vladimir putin. >>> and bill clinton, meet bill clinton! the former president has lunch with the ugandan boy named after him. i wonder if they're going to end up -- >> look at that sweet picture when he was born and then older. that's very sweet. >>> welcome back to "early start," everyone, i'm john berman. >> and i'm zoraida sambolin. happy to have you this morning, 32 minutes past the hour. >>> ten key electoral votes that the republicans haven't had since 1984. big election news for you this morning. cnn now putting the state of wisconsin in the toss-up column. obama at 49% and romney at 45%. that is within the margin of error. it appears the paul ryan pick may be paying off, at least for now. cnn political director mark preston live in washington. good news for the romney camp, at leas

since he's from wisconsin. maybe that doesn't mean anything. we just don't know yet. i think in romney's own words are an indication, a window into his thinking. you read the quote where he talked about a vision for the country and people have looked at that and said because of the choices that paul ryan made with his budget and speaking about cutting the deficit, that that might fill that sort of characteristic that romney was talking about. it's one of those things where you can look at each of the finalists and see things they bring to mitt romney. how it was done and what the conversations were, a lot of this will seem so much more clear. but this is one of washington's finest parlor games, the moment between knowing that an announcement is coming and knowing who the actual candidate is. it's an exciting time.

but it will be in waukesha, wisconsin, on sunday. we will have live coverage coming up on c-span at 7:05. >> jason is on our republican line. thank you for waiting. go ahead. >> i think paul ryan is a great choice for the ticket. it brings youth. i also think the white house should be ashamed of themselves for calling mitt romney a killer, pretty much. >> heavy seen a television ad or are you hearing reaction? >> i saw the tv ad talking about what mitt romney did and how he lost his job could not afford health insurance request the one that ran last week? -- could not afford health insurance. that can last week. we will give a chance to see that. next caller. >> i believe we never gave our president a chance. he has been fighting and struggling alter this. his obamacare that they talk about, i think paul ryan is a good chase for mitt romney. mix and look better but not that good. -- it makes him look better but not that good. >people forget the cut things out of it. they added things to it. republicans did this. i do not understand w

remember, he had the big election campaign with scott walker in wisconsin. this would be a major play for wisconsin. a swing state but a democratic-leaning state. this would be a bold and risky pick. both the right and left wanted ryan. it's interesting there. >> so you say risky and changing electoral map. >> yes. i think this would be a major play, also for ohio, and republican history shows you have to win ohio and you know, ryan is a unique member of congress. this would be the first house member to be selected as a vice president candidate since geraldine ferraro. he's been in congress seven terms, he's experienced a policy launch. he knows policy initside and out, has gone toe to toe with the president obama publicly and privately. this is a major play for the base. something would april ease the republican base that has had concerns about mitt romney. >> right let's stick with the electoral map conversations just a moment. how does this affect ohio? is this so crucial, how does it change the map there? >> i think the campaign because if you look at ot